dgarretson
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| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights If an arrangement of dual counterweights placed front and back of the pivot point is entirely decoupled from the arm wand and offers a wide enough range of adjustment for an exact match of tonearm inertial mass to cartridge compliance, then it is ... | |
| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights I try for the simpliest approach that addresses the main problems of physics. The first principles are:The ideal arm is such that on a flat LP, stylus deflection associated with normal tracking produces no vertical movement of the cartridge. (Hori... | |
| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights Hi Bob,The Moerch is certainly beautiful, and like other pivots does variable effective mass and other nice things with interchangeable armtubes. However I'm done with long resonant arm tubes and the inevitable junctions in wiring attendant to det... | |
| The Placement of Tonearm Counterweights This makes good sense. However varying mass v. distance on just one side of a conventional pivot arm has the limitation of a relatively small range of adjustment. To devise a "universal" arm with continuously variable effective vertical mass, I've... | |
| Best Jazz of 2010 Charles Lloyd Quartet "Mirror" is up there. Also a few interesting off-track efforts like David S. Ware "Onecept" and Nels Cline "Dirty Baby." | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help Ralph, I would add to your list the experimental reversal of cartridge phase on one channel-- no matter what the ohmmeter says. Incorrect relative phase will definitely shift the image to one side.Also, has each tonearm wire been checked with an o... | |
| I am at the end of my rope, please help To be certain about correct relative phase, forget the ohmmeter and just try switching the red and green cartridge clips. | |
| Have you ever got emotionally attached Jl35, now you're talk'in. ESS AMT Towers-- my first audiophile speakers 1974-1990 RIP. | |
| Best recording audiophile level albums of 2010 Richard, agreed it's hard to keep up with Oldham's output. IMO this is among his best.Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephan "for the ghost within" LP is beautifully recorded chamber jazz-- original compositions and also nice takes on Monk, Strayhorn, Mercer and ot... | |
| Best recording audiophile level albums of 2010 Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang "The Wonder Show of the World"I passed a few very pleasant hours with the LP at Highwater Sound in NYC listening through TW Acustic, Tron, and Horning. It's a first class recording and performance. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Marty, perhaps you're right. My reaction on first pass was the same as with Elton John on the Leon Russell duet album. Through aging or booze, both are so down in vocal range as to be unrecognizable and drained of energy. Maybe the compression on ... | |
| If upgrades were no longer possible would you be Always something to do, but with DIY mods the recipe for satisfaction is different: 1/5 cost + 10x(time + effort)= 2-3x stock performance. | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 Martykl, thanks I wasn't aware of Ron Wood soloing again. However notwithstanding nostalgia "I Feel Like Playing" is lackluster. Nothing from him really hits the mark since "I've Got My Own Album to Do" and "Now Look"-- IMO both of which surpass t... | |
| Debuzzing a Wheaton TriPlanar problem Dr John, each tonearm wire conductor that I use to eliminate hum is separately shielded("screened".) In a fully balanced configuration, each shield floats at the cartridge pin and is tied to preamp ground at the other end of the phono cable. In an... | |
| Debuzzing a Wheaton TriPlanar problem RFI/EMI problems at tonearm wires can tend to jump around unpredictably as you describe and vary in proximity with the human body. Grounding the tonearm or TT is sometimes not enough, and screened tonearm wire may be necessary to resolve the probl... |